Triple
T3241844
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Siege of Louisbourg (1745) |
E67980
|
entity |
| Predicate | commander |
P1061
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
William Pepperrell
William Pepperrell was a colonial American merchant, landowner, and military leader best known for leading New England forces to capture the French fortress of Louisbourg during King George’s War.
|
E339607
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (4 steps)
Every LLM step that produced this triple, in pipeline order — named-entity classification, the disambiguation choices (the exact options shown, with the pick highlighted), and the generated description. The batch + timestamp of each is in the Provenance table below.
NER
Named-entity recognition
gpt-5-mini
Instruction
Given a phrase, classify it is english named entity (e.g., persons, organizations, works of art) in Latin script, or not (e.g., literals, dates, URLs, verbose phrases). For disambiguation, the statement where the phrase occurs as object is also given. Please return a JSON object with `phrase` (string, the phrase being analyzed) and `is_ne` (boolean, indicating whether the phrase is a Named Entity).
Input
Phrase: William Pepperrell | Statement: [Siege of Louisbourg (1745), commander, William Pepperrell]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Pepperrell Context triple: [Siege of Louisbourg (1745), commander, William Pepperrell]
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A.
William Shirley
William Shirley was an 18th-century British colonial administrator best known for his role as governor of Massachusetts during King George’s War and the early stages of the French and Indian War.
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B.
William Coddington
William Coddington was a 17th-century English colonial leader and magistrate best known as a founding figure and early governor in what became the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.
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C.
Esek Hopkins
Esek Hopkins was the first Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Navy during the American Revolutionary War.
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D.
Edward Cornwallis
Edward Cornwallis was an 18th-century British military officer and colonial administrator best known for establishing British rule in Nova Scotia and serving as the first governor of Halifax.
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E.
Thomas Gage
Thomas Gage was a British Army general and colonial governor of Massachusetts whose policies and military actions helped spark the American Revolutionary War.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NEDg
Description generation
gpt-5.1
Instruction
Generate a one-sentence description of the target entity. You are given a context triple in the form (subject, predicate, object), where the object is the target entity. # Instructions Use the triple to infer relevant information about the entity. Describe the entity based on what is most defining, well-known. Avoid repeating the information from the triple, unless really essential. # Response Format Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the target entity]"
Input
Entity: William Pepperrell Triple: [Siege of Louisbourg (1745), commander, William Pepperrell]
Generated description
William Pepperrell was a colonial American merchant, landowner, and military leader best known for leading New England forces to capture the French fortress of Louisbourg during King George’s War.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Pepperrell Target entity description: William Pepperrell was a colonial American merchant, landowner, and military leader best known for leading New England forces to capture the French fortress of Louisbourg during King George’s War.
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A.
William Shirley
William Shirley was an 18th-century British colonial administrator best known for his role as governor of Massachusetts during King George’s War and the early stages of the French and Indian War.
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B.
William Coddington
William Coddington was a 17th-century English colonial leader and magistrate best known as a founding figure and early governor in what became the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.
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C.
Esek Hopkins
Esek Hopkins was the first Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Navy during the American Revolutionary War.
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D.
Edward Cornwallis
Edward Cornwallis was an 18th-century British military officer and colonial administrator best known for establishing British rule in Nova Scotia and serving as the first governor of Halifax.
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E.
Thomas Gage
Thomas Gage was a British Army general and colonial governor of Massachusetts whose policies and military actions helped spark the American Revolutionary War.
- F. None of above. chosen
Provenance (5 batches)
The batch behind each pipeline step, in order, with when it ran. Timestamps are batch-level — stages were processed in waves, so the object chain (NER → NED1 → NEDg → NED2) reads in order, but predicate / elicitation batches can sit in a different wave.
| Step | Stage | Batch ID | Status | When |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| creating | Elicitation | batch_69ad858d27348190abb61c280b4c86a9 |
completed | March 8, 2026, 2:19 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69adaef76d908190815bb456e366ee0a |
completed | March 8, 2026, 5:16 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69b27757dff0819081a26aea52ede49d |
completed | March 12, 2026, 8:20 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69b27846372c8190a5c96158bf2a5ff2 |
completed | March 12, 2026, 8:24 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69b2791ac4a08190a1cee3cfbca6e6d6 |
completed | March 12, 2026, 8:28 a.m. |
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:08 p.m.